The citizens voted yes to the

construction of new schools to properly educate their children. We voted

no to overcrowding, no to busing, no to redrawing lines and especially

no to trailer park encampment centers to educate our children. By the

way, who has the trailer contract?

If the BOE is determined to

do it right, three elementary schools should be ready to open in the fall

of 2002, along with a new high school to offset the current and future

overcrowding happening at three of the high schools.

If the new high school is built

to educate just ninth and tenth graders in its first year, it would be

a better plan than stock-piling the students in the unwanted LaFayette

Center until 2004.

BOEs in neighboring counties

open schools with just ninth and tenth graders with great success; it

is the educationally sound thing to do.

Fayette County is growing faster

than you believe; the BOE enrollment numbers were 500 short for the beginning

of the 2000 school year. Will they guess 500 short for 2001? What about

2002?

Numbers don't lie. So, we ask

the BOE, what are you doing with our tax dollars?

Certainly not solving the overcrowding

problem.

Jim Tarpey

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